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Five tips for eco-friendly gardening

May 31, 2017

The word eco-friendly can be used in many areas of our lives: at work, at home, at play. Being eco-friendly in all these aspects is quite a simple concept with incredible opportunities for creativity. The bottom line is eco-friendly is all about working with nature, not against it. As gardeners we play an ever-increasing unique[...]
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Cattle grazer Steve Kenyon and wife Amber Kenyon have gone almost completely off-grid with a solar system purchased on the online classified site Kijiji.

News

The solar power math is starting to add up

A steep drop in solar prices is giving a new meaning to ‘green’ power —  and giving Alberta farmers a way to cut energy costs

By Jennifer Blair April 24, 2017

Reading Time: 6 minutes Cory Nelson isn’t what you might call a ‘tree hugger.’ But the Grassy Lake-area farmer is a businessman, and to him, solar energy just makes good financial sense. “We view it as an investment,” said Nelson, who grows a variety of crops under irrigation on his southern Alberta farm. “Our best math said it was[...]
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Livestock, Reuters

Pacific trade pact countries seek ‘progressive’ way forward

By Antonio De la Jara, Rosalba O'Brien March 15, 2017

Vina Del Mar, Chile | Reuters — The remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are seeking a way forward on the trade pact, they said on Wednesday, as some emphasized the need for deals to address concerns about workers’ rights and other issues. The TPP, which originally covered some 40 per cent of global[...]
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This graphic shows the daily low (blue) and high (red) temperature during the last 12 months with the area between them shaded grey. It is superimposed over the corresponding averages (thick lines), and with percentile bands (inner band from 25th to 75th percentile, outer band from 10th to 90th percentile). The bar at the top of the graph is red where both the daily high and low are above average, blue where they are both below average, and white otherwise.

Weather

Doubt about global warming isn’t coming from scientists

It’s not hard to create doubt about sound science —  the tobacco industry proved that years ago

By Daniel Bezte March 10, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Several years ago, Weather Underground’s co-founder Jeff Masters wrote a blog about the manufactured doubt industry, how and when it was created, and how it now plays into the current global warming or climate change controversy. At the time I emailed Masters asking permission to use some of the information from his blog in an[...]
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News

The lowdown on solar and wind leases

By Farmers Advocate Office March 8, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Farmers’ Advocate Office has released a new publication titled Negotiating Renewable Energy Leases. “The FAO has been seeing an increase in the number of calls about negotiating wind and solar leases,” said spokesperson Jeana Schuurman. The publication covers some key differences between wind and solar leases and those for oil and gas. Since wind[...]
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Livestock, Weather

‘Change’ is the watchword in a warming world, says researcher

Longer summers and milder winters sound nice, but even the pluses come with some negatives

By Alexis Kienlen March 1, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes How will the Canadian cattle industry fare if global temperatures continue to rise? Count a reduced feed demand, a longer grazing season, and higher forage production among the benefits — but also expect more extreme weather, pests, and transport headaches, according to University of Manitoba research scientist Kim Ominski. “We know the future of our[...]
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This map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during January. You can see it was a fairly dry month for most regions, with a large portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and western Manitoba seeing less than 60 per cent of average.

Weather

Articles on climate change provoke some readers

Like politics and religion, global warming is a polarizing topic — but it’s one that we should discuss

By Daniel Bezte February 24, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the years, some of my weather articles have provoked or inspired various amounts of comments. What surprised me recently was the number of emails I received about the top weather events from around the world in 2016 — in particular, several from readers who accused me of leaning too heavily towards climate change or[...]
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The phase-out of coal and remediation work in the oil and gas sector (such as contamination testing shown below) are creating jobs for agrologists.

Heartland, News

Business is booming for agrologists in Alberta

By Glenn Cheater February 17, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Given the economic woes of Alberta in the past couple of years, David Lloyd has a pretty convincing pitch for anyone considering a career in agronomy. “Since the downturn in the economy, from Jan. 1, 2015, we’ve added 150 to 200 new members a year,” said the CEO and registrar of the Alberta Institute of[...]
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Preserving wildlife habitat on his Milk River ranch has been a win-win, says John Ross.

News, Pasture

Fifteen years later, conservation program is an overnight sensation

Almost no one wanted to sign up for the wildlife habitat restoration  project when it started, but now there’s a waiting list

By Alexis Kienlen February 13, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes John Ross was the first rancher to sign on to the MULTISAR (Multiple Species At Risk) program 15 years ago, when no one else wanted to sign up to the conservation initiative. Now, there’s a waiting list of ranchers signed up to make their grazing land more suitable for wildlife and native species. “We worked[...]
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This map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen so far this winter (Nov. 1 to Jan. 15) compared to the long-term average. So far it has been a fairly dry winter across pretty much all regions of Alberta, with western areas being the wettest and northern and eastern regions the driest. Only a few locations west and northwest of Edmonton are above average, with much of the northern and Peace River regions reporting low to extremely low amounts.

Weather

The top global weather stories of 2016 had a common theme

Whether you look at temperatures, ice at the poles, air quality, or the  Fort Mac fires, the evidence of a warming planet is clear 

By Daniel Bezte February 10, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes It seems that a new list of the top global weather stories of 2016 comes out every day. So I thought I would go through some of these lists and pick the top stories that are shared by all of the lists. Of course, I might have a slight bias towards Canadian stories. I don’t think[...]
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Five tips for eco-friendly gardening

The solar power math is starting to add up

Pacific trade pact countries seek ‘progressive’ way forward

Doubt about global warming isn’t coming from scientists

The lowdown on solar and wind leases

‘Change’ is the watchword in a warming world, says researcher

Articles on climate change provoke some readers

Business is booming for agrologists in Alberta

Fifteen years later, conservation program is an overnight sensation

The top global weather stories of 2016 had a common theme

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